my moms ex was in the navy when he was a shellback he said the inititiation for the newbies was that they would grab a BIG garbage container and fill it up with balast/bilge water and then "neptune" would stand on one end and the newbies had to dive in swim under the water to neptune and come out ... with out puking or catching thier breath b4 they got to the other side....

weirdscience wrote:my moms ex was in the navy when he was a shellback he said the inititiation for the newbies was that they would grab a BIG garbage container and fill it up with balast/bilge water and then "neptune" would stand on one end and the newbies had to dive in swim under the water to neptune and come out ... with out puking or catching thier breath b4 they got to the other side....

Maybe we could get ten hippies in a kiddie pool, to recreate bilge water. Shit! Gagged typing that!

weirdscience wrote:my moms ex was in the navy when he was a shellback he said the inititiation for the newbies was that they would grab a BIG garbage container and fill it up with balast/bilge water and then "neptune" would stand on one end and the newbies had to dive in swim under the water to neptune and come out ... with out puking or catching thier breath b4 they got to the other side....

Maybe we could get ten hippies in a kiddie pool, to recreate bilge water. Shit! Gagged typing that!

There was "The Abyss" in 02 which was the outer road, so it could be crossing that circle to the deep playa. Or it could be crossing from the inner playa to the outer reaches formed by the Esplanade circle. Hard to know exactly where it is out there, but so is the equator without the right tools.

- Birthdays are rites of passage.
- Could have a camp for people who are turning 18 to celebrate their fully legal human-hood.
- Turning 21 Camp?
- The Temple has always represented a Rite of Passage.

In Ancient Greece, Dokimasia (Greek: Î´Î¿ÎºÎ¹Î¼Î±ÏƒÎ¯Î±) was the name used at Athens to denote the process of ascertaining the capacity of the citizens for the exercise of public rights and duties. Our culture doesn't have this, much to our chagrin!Etoro tribe and Baruya in Papua New Guinea where young boys must begin ingesting their elders semen, and then stop doing it at a certain age.